HTC Amaze 4G hands-on

Here we have it, folks, the HTC Amaze 4G on T-Mobile. Maybe it's amazing because of the gorgeous qHD Super LCD display. Maybe it's amazing because it just feels good in your hand. Maybe it's amazing because of T-Mobile's 42 Mbps network. Maybe it's amazing for the 1.5GHz dual-core processor pushing the latest version of HTC Sense. Or maybe it's amazing because HTC finally has begun paying attention to camera quality.

These all are things we'll be testing out over the coming days and weeks. But our initial impressions are pretty good. It's fast. It's sleek. It's not the most svelte phone available today, but we're betting all those superlatives above will make up for it.

Interesting, because I'm actually planning to dump Sprint after 13 years and go to T-Mobile becuase from everything I've seen their data (even though it's not "true" 4G) is blowing away Sprint. I live in downtown Chicago and over the last year Sprint has clearly started throttling back our 3G speeds and WiMAX is next to usless due to its poor penetration (I work in a building, something apparently WiMAX wasn't designed for). I have an EVO 4G (loved) and an EVO 3D (meh) and can't wait for Wednesday to pick up the Amaze.

T-Mobile speeds in Boston area are very fast, the speeds in my town are over 9.5 MB download and over 3 MB upload, these are daytime speeds, at night they are even faster. AT&T and Sprint can not touch those speeds, Verizon's LTE might be faster, but in some areas, and in the next month or so T-Mobile's speeds are going to be bumped up even faster. They are far from behind the times. I don't care what label they put on their Network, those speeds are just ass kicking fast. That phone is much nicer in black, top quality construction, great specs, better then 99% of what is out there now. I like it HTC makes a quality product, maybe better then the Samsung GS2.
PS I have accounts with both Verizon and T-Mobile, IMO I think T-Mobile is better, battery last twice as long on the HSPA+ Network and it is very stable. T-Mobile is far from behind the times, AT&T and Sprint are talking a great game but I say show me don't tell me.

T- Mobile speeds in the Cincinnati, OH area is in 13MB download according to the Samsung Galaxy S II and the Speedtest app. No it is not exactly 4G but it is kicking my DSL line's butt. I'm sticking with T-Mobile and can I just say I LOVE the Samsung Galaxy S II. If Gingerbread is this nice I'm curious to see what ICS brings.

I just really HOPE T-Mobile does wayyyy better marketing with this phone and the galaxy s2 plus whatever they bring out in the future!!! Because they are having some great devices coming out now but nobody really knows about them because of they're horrible marketing so i HOPE they finally wake up and get it crackin:)

I'm using a European Galaxy S2, which I like, but I also like the rounded shape of many HTC phones like this. I wonder when we will see the various 720p phones in the EU, plus how good and stable Ice Cream will be.

Bottomline here this is definitely a great device to have HTC is making some serious moves especially in 2012 with the upcoming snapdragon S4 platform which will be able to support quadcore 1.5 to 2.5Ghz processor with 1.5gb of ram. Better days are definitely ahead in htc land. Meanwhile this is great for the end of 2011..

Im so torn between the sgs2 and this..im not sure what to go with. I currently have a vibrant, and really like the ui and the amoled display. I want to give htc a try, but im not sure if sense is for me. Also i kinda wanna wait and see what the new nexus will have... ughhh!! Im gonna have to go to a tmo store and really compare the two.

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